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We've all been through the hellish phase of wanting to break the game disc or the hardware that plays it because of a frustrating situation. One of which includes a specific boss that triggers something in us to take breaks or calm ourselves down so that you don't annoy everyone in the house or community, as you scream a bunch of profanity towards your TV in the middle of the night. Some of these opponents can be one single boss that's overpowered as shit, some can be a group of bosses that count as one boss, some can count as a boss that has certain conditions to defeat, etc. It can even be the annoying ass ghosts from Pac-Man that always seem to corner you for no reason when you're on a streak of success. Some bosses come with handicaps to the player even, such as a certain weapon type or special ability won't phase a boss because they are immune to it.
The bosses that I can't stand the most personally are the ones who always regenerate health in the middle of the battle and sometimes you're not at a distance to stop them or there's something that blocks you every time you attempt to. As a kid playing a game, it might have even made you cry or become moody towards everything outside of the game. Funny, I remember when I was about 9yrs old and I started playing through Devil May Cry 3 for the first time. I thought that game was very hard in a lot of areas that I eventually made it through after studying the patterns of the bosses, but then I came across Virgil. Yeah, I wasn't hot shit anymore, because man let me tell you, Virgil is the reason I've lost so many tears as a kid. I had no idea how to beat him! He was so fast and his damage seemed to almost double that of mines! I remember having a breakdown and telling myself that the game was cheating or unfair or stupid or that I hated the game. I died and restarted to the same cutscene before the fight to the point where I could perfectly recite it entirely after awhile. Eventually I DID beat Vergil...eventually, but as I went into the harder difficulties, I became hesitant about it. Maybe that's apart of the joy of being a gamer, getting your shit handed to you and then somehow overcoming it? No clue.
Overtime, it didn't get any better, as games started to advance and the gameplay mechanics alongside the AI started to become insanely more focused. A lot people lose hair over the bosses within Dark Souls, Final Fantasy, Bloodeborne, Kingdom Hearts, etc. Especially with bosses from fighting games. Mortal Kombat (2011) had probably the most frustrating boss battle for me in terms of a fighting game. Shao Khan made me consider that the game wasn't even worth beating, and I don't remember what the reward was after beating him, if any, but it sure as hell wasn't worth the agonizing beating that he gave me for what seemed like eternity. My best analogy would be like a toddler trying to fight Superman in a confined space. Yet, I eventually DID beat him as well. Then there's a bunch of games where I've faced ridiculous bosses of all sizes that have since caused me to throw fits of rage in my room, but overtime you learn to deal with better because you know that you will most likely defeat the boss. It just becomes annoying and tedious when you have to do the same thing, over and over and over again. It becomes insanity, and you become insane because of it. It's okay because we've all been there, unless you're some sort of beat-every-boss-in-one-sitting-for-all-eternity-and-more kind of person.
This can span from the moment you touched your first controller or keyboard, until right now as a current gamer, so which boss is the hardest? Or even, which boss is still giving you problems despite knowing how to beat them? Leave a comment below!

What game had the greatest emotional impact on you?
Often times, I'll think about how far games have come in terms of their stories instead of just their graphics and visuals. It's pretty crazy when you think of a game having a story that's better than a lot of movies or shows.
In a game, we have plenty of time to invest ourselves into the characters, their emotions, their dilemmas, their world, and everything in between, so connecting with them on a better level is easier than say....a 2-hour movie that tries to capture everything in one sitting. Usually the movies are based off of books, which have more details and you get to have your own way of envisioning how the story is unfolding. I feel that games are a closer representation of books than a movie or a show that you have to wait for seasons to unfold the next piece of the story. The point to this is to ask ourselves, which game has had the greatest emotional impact on our lives? That can be taken in a couple of ways: Nostalgia trips where you've grown up playing a game and it brings back memories of times when you were a simpler, happy gamer with probably no idea of what was to come with online gaming (Like me), or a game that has a set of specific characters whom you identify with or you just like who they are and what they deal with.
I remember the old times when games were more of an intimate thing where you would have to back the data up yourself and there wasn't many cloud storage options so you needed the right hardware for it, although back then it was just normal. Today, something like that would be frustrating, but all of that is what built our love for gaming and evolving with it as we evolve as people. And there's definitely been some characters in games that have both changed and entertained me throughout life due to my admiration for them.
However, what game do you think of when you dig deep and remember the emotional impact that it might of had on you while you were playing it, after you beat it, and maybe even up to this point today? Franchises like Red Dead Redemption, The Last Of Us, Uncharted , COD Modern Warfare, Final Fantasy, The Walking Dead, Assassin's Creed, etc. Anything in the spectrum of story telling or character relatability. I use to be a huge AC fanatic before they changed up a lot of things that I didn't agree with and some of the newer characters lacked substance because they only received one game. It was much easier to connect with Ezio because you play as him literally from the moment he's a baby up until he's an old man that's ready to retire from the creed. It's easy to do that when you have played multiple games that tie-in to one another, but that's looking at a franchise as a whole. What about an individual game (can be apart of a franchise) that affected you?
After sitting here with no life for about 30 minutes, I came up with a conclusion for what my most emotional game (story-wise) of all time may be. It was a tough call, but I think I'm sure that it's Bioshock Infinite. I remember playing through that game and not knowing what the hell to expect because I got the game on a whim and just said to hell with it before starting it up and playing through. I had no idea that the game would have been such a deep story with such a strong message and pretty much open for interpretation for the way that it ends. You can play through it and take whatever kind of lesson you want out of it. I like those games the most. The Last Of Us is definitely a close second for me because it had the story of a movie and yeah, there's been successful games similar to it like god of war's Kratos and Atreus is to Joel and Ellie. Or even that movie Logan that was the final Hugh Jackman movie for his role as Wolverine. So it definitely has had much impact even based on just inspiration, but for me it's not #1 for story telling. Or even Far Cry 3 was a runner up if I'm being honest about it.
The gameplay is definitely more immersive in Last of Us than Bioshock Infinite, but the stories are neck and neck to me, with Bioshock Infinite winning by a hair just based on my preferences for a story, I guess? There's just something about the dynamic between Elizabeth and Booker and how their fates were always meant to collide, pretty much infinitely, that made it such a bad-ass game for me. Everyone has a different one, but this took me by storm. It was years ago since that game came out, maybe 2011 or 2012 or so? But I've since played and watched other games that have deep stories too, yet none of them have yet to surprise me as much as Bioshock Infinite did. I'm always curious to know what other people's thoughts are and which games affected their emotions, like "Who the hell is chopping onions in front of my TV?." Welp, those are my final thoughts as of now, so share your opinions!!

I used to make comics out of these drawings back when I was a teenager. Simple, but I thought original. I recently decided to make twitch panels out of them. This is what I have accomplished so far, thoughts? I can probably make them somewhat better if I put a little more effort when I have time. Just looking for some criticism or help. Either, or both would be welcome.

I looked at some of the Doom gameplays and played the multiplayer beta. Multiplayer is meh, but might get on multiplayer every once in awhile.looking at single player it looks really awesome and it makes me want to get it because it'll sort of feel like the classic except with a bit of Halo-ish feature...then again it is a Space FPS after all.
What are you guys thoughts on it and are you planning on Getting it in the next week or later?